designsojourn.com Archives - 29 February 2012, Wednesday

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Perhaps it is my advancing age, or just a mid life crisis, but I’m getting really turned on by the Porsche 911, especially the latest 2012 iteration. Despite many fans criticizing the designers for not taking risks, I for one am pretty comfortable that they have not deviated from the ...

Design Thinking is a methodology that is fast becoming a mainstay in business strategy all around the world. Centered around creativity, empathy, and putting the user’s needs as the heart of the problem, Design Thinking is seen as an important tool for driving innovation and sustained...

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As you know, I always encourage designers to have an online presence with their own name.com or by using sites like Behance or Coroflot to share their portfolio or ideas with the world. If you think about it, with Bills like PIPA and SOPA in place what could happen is that your inspir...

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This 1-day workshop will introduce the key principles of design thinking to participants and illustrate the benefits of the design thinking approach as a strategy for innovation. This 1-day workshop is targeted at C-level executives, decision makers, and participants managing innovati...

This interesting quote, by Naoto Fukasawa, is a reflection of his design philosophy and beliefs. He essentially describes how a design can become a seamless and ubiquitous experience for a user. A designer’s critical insight in this case comes from observing and understanding a consum...

With the Internet becoming a standard means of communication, most portfolios are now sent through email. Not only that, more and more designers are presenting their portfolio work on their laptops, iPads and projectors. Don’t discount the paper portfolio though; the honesty and tangi...

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If you look at some of Ive’s earlier designs (had a book out on apples early products the other day) they don’t seem to conform to the same design philosophies, They were much more flamboyant and less reserved in the detailing which leads one to think it was either an evolution or a b...

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I often think such exercises are often rhetorical and pointless, as a definition fails when it lacks context. However, as design is evolving into a more strategic activity, I have experienced many situations where I have to deal with the definition of design. Especially in a way that ...

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Miura and Sakamaki normally work on the problems of packing large flat items, like satellite antennae and solar collectors, into the smallest, most compact shapes with a view to deploying them as rapidly and as simply as possible. They saw three problems with maps folded at right angl...

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain...

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It makes a lot of sense to use skeuomorphism to help bridge a communication gap by making an object’s function more intuitive to the user. This reduces the need of additional design details and hence promoting simplicity. However if used incorrectly, things could look tacky and out of...

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They say 3 of the 4Ps of Marketing are Dead Design Leadership Nov 14, 2011 Comments Anyone? Tweet A warm welcome to you dear reader! If you have not already, why not subscribe to The Design Sojourn Newsletter and get my latest thoughts on Strategies for Good Design conveniently delive...

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1) Move beyond needing to be understood. Focus on being valued. 2) Do not react to every situation. By allowing the dynamics to play out there is deeper learning. Designers self regulate through experience. 3) There is a thin line between being understood and being irrelevant. (If bus...

Some people rip off the corner of the packet with their teeth. Others, while driving, squirt the ketchup directly into their mouth, then add fries. Some forgo fries at the drive-through all together to keep from creating a mess in the car. After observing these and other “compensating...

Still fewer have a chuckle when they see the new Address Book app on Mac OS X Lion, or the even more recent Find My Friends iPhone app. These apps, and many more besides, all stem from a completely different, and I would say opposite aesthetic sensibility than the plain devices they r...

In my humble opinion, Design Thinking needs to stop focusing on the process and be more about the outcome. In other words, Design Thinking needs to become more results-orientated. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not talking about ROI here. ROI kills Design Thinking or any creative process out...

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Some of you might mistakenly think that I’m against the whole concept of Design Thinking. I don’t blame you as this probably stem from an article I wrote on how Design Thinking is Killing Creativity . If you read that article, it actually explains that the problems of Design Thinking ...

Design Thinking is a methodology that is fast becoming a mainstay in business strategy all around the world. Centered around creativity, empathy, and putting the user’s needs as the heart of the problem, Design Thinking is seen as an important tool for driving innovation and sustained...

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I think Apple are scared to release a new version. Competition from the Andriod phones like the Samsung Galaxy S2 are just too great for Apple to keep up with as they only put out 1 phone every 14months. Apple could play it smart and allow some key companies to use the iOS5 for them t...

DT – then perhaps we are in need of a clear distinction between user-centered incremental innovation and innovation that is driven by user-centered principles. (By the way, it may even be a mistake to say that there is any innovation that isn’t user-centered–there’s only innovation th...